Day 317

Today Junior managed to cast a simple generic healing spell, the type that might heal a minor burn if you are lucky, without losing concentration. She had the spell backfire a couple times while trying to pull it off, and even got sick as a result, but luckily it was small enough that it burned itself out in under a minute. By the end of the day she was able to quickly cast it two or three times before losing concentration, though more complicated spells were still beyond her.

Askos managed to stay standing for a while, only to black out because he had his knees locked for too long. Why is that even a thing that happens? It seems like something that Origin would have been able to easily remove, but maybe it just never came up? Regardless, having all of his blood pool in his legs definitely made him lose concentration. I should figure out a way to fix that little quirk of flesh and bone creatures and do so every time I evolve one of them. The Origin were obviously brilliant, but not perfect.

As for the teleportation thing, I think I am more or less done with the design to be implemented into my trees. I just need to get some people to test it out for me. The actual design involves Requiem, Portweed, Singing Grass, and Pipeweed, though I should probably just integrate all of my plants into my trees. Requiem produces way more mana than is actually necessary so that should both increase my own production of mana, like it needed to be any higher, and also increase ambient mana quite a bit. At that point I wouldn’t be surprised if my forest becomes one of the most mana dense places in the world.

After I make sure I’m not missing anything It should only take me a couple hours to integrate everything into my trees, it’s a lot easier to do that than it is to grow something like a teleportation gate.

Par got back into town today, so I spent my downtime with him. Every time I am with him in public I always notice the different ways the people react to him as opposed to me. He is physically a lot bigger than me, so people always notice him before me. And that usually takes the form of a quiet awe, especially among the soldiers and the people close to the soldiers. Whereas with me it is often in the form of praise and worship, which, while fun, sometimes gets in the way of things.

There was a feast today, celebrating a successful campaign. Though they didn’t capture any cities, they still managed to strike a hefty blow against the forces of the enemy. I don’t think my good cheer was entirely the result of the crowd.

I got to see Umi and Ednar again as well, they have grown quite a lot in the last year, certainly faster than sprites normally do. Though supposedly conflict and very high amounts of mana can cause children to grow faster, and we have plenty of both. Their birthday is actually coming up here in a couple weeks, I should try to get them something.

Umi used the last gift I got for her to the point of breaking it, so maybe I could make another one for her? Maybe a bit more durable. As for Ednar, I’m not sure what I could get for the boy. Might have to ask him what he wants.

Par said that he was going to stay in town until their birthday, letting one of his generals take care of things on the front lines until then. I look forward to having him around, it’s always nice to talk to him faster than someone can carry a letter. Though give it enough time and eventually, there will be enough people that are part of my hive mind that it won’t matter where he goes I’ll still be able to talk to him.

After nearly two years he still calls me ‘my queen’. It’s kind of endearing at this point.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.